The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has cautioned resident doctors in Abuja against threatening to embark on industrial action.

Wike said he would not pay doctors who embark on strike while he’s a minister, adding that he’s ready to contend with them in court.

Addressing resident doctors, Wike said he would make more money when they embark on industrial action.

“Make your recommendations, and we will see the ones we can do and those we can’t do. Don’t threaten me with a strike because I don’t like it. When you go on strike, I save money; even if you come back, I won’t pay; we will determine it in court.

“It’s not about promises but the reality on ground, I don’t believe in theory,” Wike said.

Recently, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, have been on-and-off industrial actions due to the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands.

The doctors’ demands, among many others, include the immediate payment of the 2023 Medical Residency Training Fund (MRTF), tangible steps on the “upward review” of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS), and payment of all salary arrears owed its members since 2015.

The doctors also want the immediate massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals and the abolishment of the bureaucratic limitations to the immediate replacement of doctors and nurses who leave the system.

They also want the immediate review of hazard allowance by all the state governments as well as private tertiary health institutions where any form of residency training is done.

https://.ng/2023/10/19/dont-threaten-me-with-strike-i-wont-pay-when-you-resume-wike-warns-doctors/

Thonyb2:
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has cautioned resident doctors in Abuja against threatening to embark on industrial action.

Wike said he would not pay doctors who embark on strike while he’s a minister, adding that he’s ready to contend with them in court.

Addressing resident doctors, Wike said he would make more money when they embark on industrial action.

“Make your recommendations, and we will see the ones we can do and those we can’t do. Don’t threaten me with a strike because I don’t like it. When you go on strike, I save money; even if you come back, I won’t pay; we will determine it in court.

“It’s not about promises but the reality on ground, I don’t believe in theory,” Wike said.

Recently, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, have been on-and-off industrial actions due to the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands.

The doctors’ demands, among many others, include the immediate payment of the 2023 Medical Residency Training Fund (MRTF), tangible steps on the “upward review” of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS), and payment of all salary arrears owed its members since 2015.

The doctors also want the immediate massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals and the abolishment of the bureaucratic limitations to the immediate replacement of doctors and nurses who leave the system.

They also want the immediate review of hazard allowance by all the state governments as well as private tertiary health institutions where any form of residency training is done.

https://.ng/2023/10/19/dont-threaten-me-with-strike-i-wont-pay-when-you-resume-wike-warns-doctors/

It is even against humanity to collect money for the work you did not do. In the UK, you dont get paid by your employers when you go on strike except by union

Well no love lost, he's a man of his words, an action man...

But Wike will have problem with the northern elite soon, I can see that one coming.

LOL

The work of the Nigerian doctor is to make demand and not to attend to their duties.

Of all professional disciplines in the public service, the Docters are relatively handsomely paid.

The only way the doctors can earn more is if they actually pay the right value for their education when they were students, and for the hospitals where they work, either public or private, to bill Nigerians for the value that equates to what the doctor wants to earn.

Spend a week in the hospital for malaria treatment and pay N1m.

Spend 2 days in the hospital for natuaral childbirth and pay N2m.

Have an appendectomy and pay N3m.

If Nigerians are not ready to pay such amounts, then Nigerian Doctors cannot get the value they want off the medical degrees that they also never paid for is value.

Simple, No Work No Pay. You can't collect money for the work you did not do

Doctors are best paid in civil service. Although their education is 6years plus one year of full paid level 12 work salary called INTERNSHIP.

Pharmacy, physiotherapy etc is 5 years plus a year internship, making it. Engineering etc is also 5 years

But the salary gap is very big after internship to residency, without appreciation.

Thonyb2:
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has cautioned resident doctors in Abuja against threatening to embark on industrial action.

Wike said he would not pay doctors who embark on strike while he’s a minister, adding that he’s ready to contend with them in court.

Addressing resident doctors, Wike said he would make more money when they embark on industrial action.

“Make your recommendations, and we will see the ones we can do and those we can’t do. Don’t threaten me with a strike because I don’t like it. When you go on strike, I save money; even if you come back, I won’t pay; we will determine it in court.

“It’s not about promises but the reality on ground, I don’t believe in theory,” Wike said.

Recently, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, have been on-and-off industrial actions due to the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands.

The doctors’ demands, among many others, include the immediate payment of the 2023 Medical Residency Training Fund (MRTF), tangible steps on the “upward review” of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS), and payment of all salary arrears owed its members since 2015.

The doctors also want the immediate massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals and the abolishment of the bureaucratic limitations to the immediate replacement of doctors and nurses who leave the system.

They also want the immediate review of hazard allowance by all the state governments as well as private tertiary health institutions where any form of residency training is done.

https://.ng/2023/10/19/dont-threaten-me-with-strike-i-wont-pay-when-you-resume-wike-warns-doctors/

Future president Wike

I hate strikes